‘Racial Double Standard’: Ministers, Officers Call On Walsh To Reinstate New Police Commissioner

BOSTON — There were powerful charges of racism from ministers and minority officers in Boston who gathered to support Dennis White, the city’s newly appointed police commissioner suddenly placed on leave two days after being sworn in. “There is a racial double standard,” said Rev. Eugene Rivers with the Black Ministerial Alliance.

Mayor Marty Walsh says he made the move after White was accused of domestic abuse in a 1999 divorce case, saying he didn’t know about the allegations. There were never any charges, and the officers with the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers say White rose through the ranks of the department because he earned it.

“He’s a man who is pro police reform, pro community of color, will hold officers accountable and because of that you quickly knock him down,” said one of the members at the morning press conference.

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